Między nienawiścią do demokracji a współpracą. Sztuka partycypacyjna, romantyzm i władza / In-between hatred to democracy and cooperation. Participatory art, romanticism and power

IN-BETWEEN HATRED TO DEMOCRACY AND COOPERATION. PARTICIPATORY ART, ROMANTICISM AND POWER

In my article I see about the Jacquesa Rancière’s and Claire Bishop’s criticism of participatory art. I discuss tensions between democracy and  community based on examples of practices by Roman Dziadkiewicz, Paweł Althamer and Artur Żmijewski I point out obscure results of participatory
activities – new forms of community, radical empowerment of democracy and developing new forms of contestation of capitalist trade market. In  the end I state that limiting analyses of the works only to their didactic, sadistic and manipulative qualities is a crucial shortcoming of their criticism.